Cerebrovascular & Neurointerventional Lab

Emergency department first, or straight to the angiography suite? DIRECT has enrolled 226 patients with suspected large vessel occlusion stroke, 11% of planned enrollment. Primary outcome: disability at 90 days.
NCT06825897

#stroke #thrombectomy #clinicaltrials

DONE SYMPLE in October: two new sites, Thammasat University (Thailand) and Apollo Hospitals (India), and four patients enrolled, one each in Mexico, Romania, Thailand and Bangladesh. Thammasat enrolled its first patient in the month it opened.

NCT07001852 #stroke #clinicaltrial

A journal cover, made in our lab: Milad Arzani's artwork was selected for the cover of Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology, with Leonardo Cruz-Criollo, mentored by Suresh M.L. Raghavan and Santiago Ortega-Gutiérrez, MD. Congratulations, Milad.

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Since 2015 our physicians have run short missions to public hospitals in developing countries: 5 trips, 3 hospitals, 50 patients treated.
10+ physicians from outside the US have done month-long rotations here since 2018.
Learn more: cerebrovascular.lab.uiowa.edu/international-…

#Stroke #GlobalHealth #Neurointervention

At SONEPSYN's LXXXI Congress in Chile, Dr. Vanessa Cano (INNN, Mexico City) reviewed the 6–24h and >24h evidence and the trials under way, including DONE SYMPLE, where she is a collaborator.